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a boast of nuclear proportions in russia president putin says his country has weapons like nowhere else in the world. u.s. president all trump breaks with these policies stance on guns and calls on politicians to go big on reform south korea's president ted sachs a japan of its role in world war two sex slavery. at least six civilians including a young girl have been killed on thursday in russian and syrian government air raids on east and go to it's unclear yet whether the deaths occurred during the third day of a pause in fighting that is currently underway on wednesday fourteen people died in more aerial bombardments on the rebel enclave the un estimates more than five hundred eighty people have been killed and well of a thousand injured since an upsurge in violence on february eighteenth a deliveries

and evacuations are yet to take place despite the daily five hour cease fire. that he did in the past eighteen days there was a lot of pressure on medical care and we have large numbers of were injured and now seem to as there are thousands of wounded and more than five hundred martyrs there is a shortage of medical supplies we have been in a besieged area for more than five years the regime perhaps medical care for the wounded it is extremely hard to work with the medical supplies we have we did everything in our power but we have an extreme shortage of medical supplies a lot of supplies are not even available we cannot and. any medical supply of some that we are only supposed to use once we use twice some specialized care is not even available in ghouta for example we only have one moved and it is impossible for him to treat all the wind it emergency rooms are limited and they were full from the first day. then heard as more from beirut in neighboring lebanon.

civilians continued to die despite the pause in the fighting activists on the ground reporting at least six civilian deaths on the third day of the five hour daily humanitarian pause announced by the russian government the russian president vladimir putin sending really a message to the people of eastern with us saying that this humanitarian pause is a failure and one of his officers on the ground saying that well if no civilians want to leave and this truce is not really changing anything on the ground we might as well scrap it so is this the sort of a message to the people of that the relentless bombing campaign they witnessed during the first week of this assault will resume like i mentioned civilians continue to die during the pause and the fighting but during the first week of the bombing campaign dozens were killed on a daily basis the pro-government alliances making it very very clear that this is their final battle for eastern huta they're going to push ahead regardless of any obstacles the russian foreign minister making it clear what it will take for for

a deal for this assault and saying that you know in one way or the other rebels all rebels need to surrender lay down their arms and leave eastern huta the people of the situation is desperate they do not want to leave they do not want to be displaced but it is becoming very difficult to survive there is a lack of food a lack of medical supplies the hundreds of people really need to be evacuated for medical treatment so a dire situation inside according to medics and no end in sight really to this ongoing. military operation. meanwhile the red cross in syria says its teams are on their way to deliver aid to civilians in the northern african region. the turkish offensive against kurdish wind fight says that continues some advantage of it joins me now from gaza in top of the take syrian border what sorts of exercise is this going to be and what are the expectations. well jane the turkish government has made it clear that from the very onset it is not going to be

stopping any aid going into offering this particular convoy is going to words that telegraph region which is between the province of aleppo and offering region this is an area where an estimated fifty thousand people have been displaced because of the ongoing fighting between turkish forces and kurdish rebels the i.c.r.c. convoy is heading there after a deal with local local boarding parties and they are going to be delivering aid to these families it is worth noting that the turkish offensive has been ongoing since january and turkey says that it has made steady progress it has been slow and there been a number of deaths on the turkish side rebel but it says that it insists that these this no progress is because the turkish forces are being careful to try and avoid civilian casualties but military sources have been also telling us that progress is being slow because it is very difficult today and it is a mountainous region and the kurdish fighters know what. the f.s.a.

the free syrian army which is backed by turkey is also trying to encircled the city of are free to try and cut off any supply lines or aid groups with which i mean mission weapons and fighters have been coming into this are free region so it is a agency that morning that is housing the one thousands of people who are stuck between these two warring sides between the kurdish fighters mr he calls terrorists and the turkish government and its back to fight is so a humanitarian situation is evolving there and turkey insists that it is not going to hinder any humanitarian work for the kurds want in their free thanks for that it's on the bench of a. russia. when president vladimir putin has shown off a new intercontinental ballistic missile in his annual address to parliament he says russia's tested nuclear weapons including an underwater drone that would be immune to enemy intercepts putin told m.p.'s that the buildup is to guarantee global peace and they accuse the u.s. of violating

a nuclear weapons treaty but i see it. has developed a new effective and modestly priced missile were also testing a new intercontinental ballistic missile the new system would carry up to two hundred tons and would be difficult to intercept it can reach much farther and will have a number of nuclear warheads it will be able to penetrate america's missile defense . has been listening to putin who joins us live from moscow really talking up there wasn't a john. during what had been a sort of relentlessly domestic focused speech to parliament suddenly took a turn when president putin started talking about russia's enhanced military capability on display in syria even went on to say that after years of the united states increasing increasingly developing more advanced missile defense systems increasingly situating them in russia's sort of orbit something that's annoyed the

kremlin for years the kremlin took it upon themselves to improve their response and he suddenly launched into this wave of extraordinary nuclear missile and strategic weapons advances some in testing some already developed new generation he said of strategic missile systems to count counter u.s. missile defense some with one particular with unlimited range there was an extraordinary graphic presentation of this missile circling the globe changing course mid flight to avoid u.s. defense radar as you spoke about as well significant new underwater technology as well big advances in drone technology how much of it is real how much of it is actually operational soon to be operational we simply don't know we may never know but it was an extraordinary display of russian power by a man who will almost certainly win the presidential election in less than three weeks time continuing at the helm as president for another six years he said we talked about advances the advances of the u.s.

for years they didn't listen well listen to us now that we are looking at here jane i mean are we returning to the cold war era with this type of speak. it's incredibly tempting to look at this in cold war terms it certainly harks back to the cold war when all the talk was about missile systems one missile system able to combat combat another and so the cold war itself was built of course putin was careful to say that while he hoped all of this would sober up any potential aggressor he said russia has no plans to be an aggressor to attack anybody we have he said everything we need but he spoke about a balance of military power the sort of balance that has kept peace in the world since world war two restoring that balance now he said as a guarantee of be so perhaps less of a cold war and more of a sort of cold peace at least in mr putin's words i turn it over there thank you.

u.s. president donald trump has broken away from the traditional republican party stance on gun signaling he wants to see tougher legislation brought in during a bipartisan meeting on gun violence trump called for expanded background checks and told politicians to seriously consider raising the age limit for purchasing some firearms we have to keep the guns out of the hands of those that pose the threat. and this really includes background checks and i know senator that you're working on things joe i know you're working in and. i mean i'm looking at a number of the folks around the table you're working in different bills we have to get them we have to get a. them to get them and. they have to be strong kim taylor is a board member at texas gun sense she says even the smallest gun regulations can make a big difference. there's always been

a black market for it in the us for guns as long as guns have been sold and regulated by any means but but over the last twenty years the regulations of guns have been decreasing because of the n.r.a. and the n.r.a. is influence over our government and our elected officials and so what we know with tighter gun control laws on the books were safer we know when we had an assault weapons ban that. mass killings shootings were were down in the united states we know if you point at any other country in the world that has sensible gun laws on the books they have significantly less gun violence than we do here in the united states and you can address straw purchasers you can limit the number of weapons that any one person can buy it at any one time so there are a number of things that you can put in place universal background checks and anyone that poses a threat to the community because of a mental health crisis or has

a serious dangerous criminal background they should have access to a weapon it's that simple also still ahead on al-jazeera amnesty international accuses egypt of using cluster bombs as part of its offensive in sinai. and why the venezuelan mother and her son are making the long trek from their country to brazil . however we got some very active weather making its way across japan at the moment big down poles and a shame a sixty two millimeters of rain twenty four hours that's all continues to drive its way further north woods and east was in the process moving into the colorado seen a fair bit of snow north east of china also see some very very a wintry weather then some wet and windy weather some wintry weather popping its

way across the region has caused widespread destruction a bit of a cleanup operation going on here as a copilot of the world of course there will be further wintry flurries as we go on through the next couple of days as that's a. very heavy snow pushing across the fall north of japan and easing out into the open waters as crisp sunshine gradually come back in behind it another area of snow for sas the central areas of china on the other hand well warming up in shanghai somewhat with pushing through winds coming in from a southerly direction to twenty four celsius in hong kong ten celsius in shanghai on friday come saturday try to rank stuff to ease the way shanghai getting up to about twenty two degrees the warm dry and sunny weather will continue for the south lucky fondant right see into the philippines over the next couple of days before the south much of malaysia is saying live fish i was there just downpours continuing for indonesia.

violence and discrimination are all too familiar to many women in india a reality too often reinforced by molly wood. but it's leaving star is throwing his weight behind the cause. to pay tribute and using his celebrity to advocate for gender equality. the snake charmers on a car witness at this time on and does either. again you are watching al-jazeera mind of our top stories at least six civilians have been killed by syrian government air raids in eastern go to on thursday it's

unclear whether they died on the third day of a cease fire that's currently in effect in the rebel held area. russian president vladimir putin is showing off a new intercontinental ballistic missile in his annual address to parliament he said russia has tested nuclear weapons including and underwater drone that would be immune to enemy intercept. and the u.s. president has broken away from the traditional republican party stance on gun signaling he wants to see tougher legislation brought in. an independent israeli human rights group has released security footage showing soldiers mistreating a palestinian man in the hours before he died in custody saturday appears to charge it israeli soldiers with a metal rod during an army raid in the city of jericho before being shot then beaten by the group the video shows the thirty three year old being dragged into an

alley where the rights group says he spent twenty five minutes without medical aid in israeli army is investigating amid gets is the spokesman for bits of them the israeli information center for human rights in the occupied territory joins us live from jerusalem very good to have you with us to talk us through this video how you got it and the story behind it. yes so it's exactly as you said we have obtained the original material from the security cameras in the market in jericho from several stores which is a much higher resolution than the video footage from the incident that was previously released and allows us to understand in greater detail what took place like you say you see in a sort of the was storming the soldiers he was shot at point blank in the abdomen and then we see the soldiers use extreme violence with absolutely no justification against the person who is laying on the floor is wounded they are kicking him they

are beating him with their rifles they're dragging him into the alley as though he was in a human being let alone a wounded person and for very long in crucial minutes the avoid providing him with any medical treatment israeli media saying that the soldiers insisted they didn't a is hit they say couldn't see that he was bleeding as they were operating in the dark which came in the gates what we seeing so where do you think this is leads any sort of investigation or getting to the bottom of this. well unfortunately i'm afraid not. the opening of the investigation announcing the opening of the investigation is simply meant to create the illusion that the i.d.f. is treating this case with any kind of seriousness we as an organization have a very long experience of cooperating with the israeli military law enforcement system we have done it for many many years on hundreds of cases and we've gained

very intimate knowledge about the inner workings of the system and we came to the sad conclusion that it is not actually designed to provide justice to victims or to seek the truth but rather to protect the perpetrators and to allow israel to continue to inflict violence on palestinians with complete impunity very briefly if you will if there is no sort of resolution to this and just as a way does it leave the families and those who know somebodies attacked in this way . in a very dire situation in a very sad situation which is exactly what living under this no longer than fifty year military occupation is. unfortunately the fact that israeli soldiers and israel as a whole acts with impunity means that similar cases will happen again in the future

thank you very much for talking to us i mean it gets thank you. south korea's president min jane says japan hasn't resolved the issue of the so-called comfort woman spoke at an event to mark ninety nine years since career rose up against japanese rule thousands of korean women were forced into sexual slavery for japanese soldiers jane world war two the government of japan has apologized and offered to compensate victims robbers pride is more from south korea's capital salt . criticism came on a day that is full of symbolism here in south korea it's a national holiday commemorating a failed uprising by koreans against japanese colonial rulers and the event took place at a former prison that was used by japan to house mainly political prisoners and freedom fighters move to japan still had not fully atoned for the treatment of

these so called comfort women women from korea who were forced into sexual slavery at the service of the japanese military moon like many people in south korea believes that japan has never really fully come to terms with the issue that's despite an agreement that was signed in twenty fifteen that was meant to have resolved this issue once and for all the criticism has hit home in japan which has issued a very terse response. what president mccain said is against japan south korea agreement and it is totally unacceptable and extremely regrettable we immediately lodged a complaint with the south korean government the greenman isn't violent irreversible solution to the issue and japan has conducted all of the obligations based on the agreement and now we're just south korea to do the same thing japan also very pointedly reminded south korea that this latest spat comes to very difficult time when japan and south korea along with the united states should be

showing a united front to the village or its of north korea with regards to into korean relations and also used his speech to call to build upon the goodwill that has been generated during these limpet games saying that north and south korea should be looking towards collaborative projects that will build two wards peace and economic progress if that is followed through if they can agree on projects between north and south korea that would be very tangible evidence of improvements in korean relations i'm just international says egypt's army is using banned cluster bombs in its military operation in north sinai the human rights group made the accusation after analyzing egyptian military video human counterparts. this is a gyptian military video the army says it shows improvised explosive devices

planted by what it calls a terrorist elements human rights group amnesty international says one of the shots is a cluster bomb which could only have been dropped by the egyptian air force the munitions serial number circled here appears to confirm misty's claim they've done it before just earlier in the month. in egypt in military officer posted to his twitter account when we indicated another u.s. cluster munition being used by loaded onto the gyptian plane and in plane that had air force swags on it so they seem to be quite proud. it's not clear why the egyptian military would release such a video the use of cluster bombs if confirmed would violate an international treaty banning may use it may also violate a united states law regarding recipients of u.s.

military aid like egypt these questor bombs are so dangerous and so deadly because they're indiscriminate it cannot be used with precision they excel in harming maiming and killing so. egypt has not signed the treaty banning cluster munitions the united states has not signed the treaty either the egyptian military has been fighting armed groups in the northern sinai since two thousand and thirteen hundreds of egyptian security offices have been killed there since the military deposed the country's first democratically elected leader mohammed morsi despite several military campaigns egyptian authorities of fail to regain full control over the sinai according to state media the military's latest operation which began on february ninth has killed at least eighty two fighters. and imprisoned more than one thousand eight hundred. u.s.

senators are trying to overrule the president's military authority by forcing a vote on the country's involvement in the war in yemen members of congress are using a nine hundred seventy three law to try to force the withdrawal of american forces from what they call an authorized war the united states has provided weapons and intelligence for the saudi led coalition targeting iranian backed fighters in yemen since twenty fifteen german intelligence officials are warning it's premature to link a major cyber attack on its government service to a russian hacking group on wednesday it was revealed hackers breached the government's computer network and managed to steal data from the foreign and defense ministries local media linked the hack to the a p t twenty eight group that apparently has ties to russian spies it hacked the german parliament's computers into a fifteen. turkey's president of type everyone is on a five day four country trip in west africa turkey's interests in africa rival the

ones of former colonial powers like france and the u.k. as well as china one of the countries everyone is visiting is senegal because hackers more on ankara's influence their repeat after me says ulema turkish teacher at the slavic institute of the car. i am sinegal and i speak turkish. it is a language many here now want to master. isabel is the world more than another country you must learn this long read or listen for and out you know university we just. learned. turkey is making it easier for cynically students to enter their country senegal is making it easier for turkish companies to invest in their country especially in this project senegal wants to turn this land into a residential city for hundreds of thousands of people construction of an international airport conference center and factories are complete next up

a university government buildings a railway line luxury apartments and the state of the art basketball stadium almost all of the construction is done by turkish companies. since president has come to power trade to africa tripled to eighteen point eight billion dollars last year turkish airways expanded its coverage to twenty three destinations across the continent last september the turkish military opened a base in somalia to train african soldiers on a tour to west africa erdogan calls for free trade agreements to increase ties to turkey's interest in africa rivals the ones of former colonial powers like france and the u.k. as well as china but this comes at a cost last year senegal in sudan closed down several schools linked to for two legged girl in one of guns political rivals think these authorities closed down this school at the request of air guns governments leaving hundreds of students out of school i was talking increases its investment to senegal and other african

countries some here fear their governments will take difficult and uncomfortable compromises in order to ensure that turkey is happy and that their investments continue to flow into their countries. a parent is upset with her government's decision. maybe children are paying the price of a political decision that has nothing to do with senekal many senegalese here feel hurt that a foreign country imposes its will to close down our schools. irgens government says it will reopen schools and sente tours to senegal but. then it shocks and apparently we don't have political goals we are here to develop the relationship between the senegalese and turkish people and so for many learning turkish is just one small step and will look for now like a new and promising relationship nicholas hawke al-jazeera had a car. the u.n.

says it's seen an increase in the number of venezuelans leaving the country over the past two weeks escaping the severe economic crisis brazil. met one family making the journey so so even a swell in mother and son on a remote highway the hope leads them to a better life the lady basket is forty six years old and her twenty two year old son kenna reese they crossed the border into brazil and are now trying to reach bolivia stuff the nearest city it is one hundred eighty kilometers away they could not afford a bus ticket so for the past three days they have been walking and still have one hundred sixty kilometers to go people have been offering us some people stopping cars and give us some water we just want to get to the nearest town and hopefully find a job it's my mom and i know what we need to do. the trip is remote there are no services around them only asphalt and it's dangerous

i as they walk the mother tells me she said it's come to this but hopeful brazil will be a place they can find work in the meantime kenner collects aluminum cans he hopes he can then sell. her just to up an estimated one thousand venezuelans in the past couple weeks have gathered along the northern brazil border outpost to come into the country they want to avoid what they say is a lack of food medicine and good jobs their homeland as a situation deteriorates in venezuela more coming every day these men are desperate most arrive with little or no money so when they finally cross the border into brazil they're faced with a very difficult decision. what to do next. we have just enough money for a bus ticket and we'll take it as far as we can go we'll try to make a new life from brazil it's a risk worth taking because we're starving. i'm

a professional person back home but here in brazil i will take any job to get some money and have some food this is all i can do. the united nations has a team here and says the nearly two billion venezuelans sort of pledged to country in the past two years are refugees this is dollars on the people who are crossing every day the border into the gulf and honest protection and humanitarian assistance this is definitely a crisis. as for the encounter there is no time to wait they keep walking one foot in front of the other mother and son alone hoping the road ends in a better place. on a highway in northern brazil. and i'm james out of the headlines on al-jazeera at least six civilians including

a young girl have been killed by syrian government air raids and. on thursday it's unclear whether they died on the third day of a cease fire that's currently in effect in the rebel held area. russian president vladimir putin is showing off a new intercontinental ballistic missile and he's an illiterate to parliament he says russia's tested nuclear weapons including an underwater drone that would be immune to enemy intercept putin told m.p.'s that the build up is to guarantee global peace and accuse the us of violating a nuclear weapons treaty with. russia has developed a new effective and modestly priced missile we're also testing a new intercontinental ballistic missile the new system would carry up to two hundred tons and would be difficult to intercept it can reach much farther and will have a number of nuclear warheads it will be able to penetrate america's missile defense . u.s. president donald trump has broken away from the traditional republican party's

stance on gun signaling he wants to see tougher legislation brought in during a bipartisan meeting on gun violence he called for expanded background checks and told politicians to seriously consider raising the age limit for purchasing some firearms an independent israeli human rights group has released security footage showing soldiers mistreating a palestinian man in the hours before he died in custody yes in our side of the appears to charge at israeli soldiers with a metal rod during an army wait in the city of jericho before being shot then beaten by the group the video shows the thirty three year old being dragged into an alley where the rights group says he spent twenty five minutes without medical aid israeli army says it's investigating south korea's president jane says japan hasn't resolved the issue of the so-called comfort women when spoken to vent to mark ninety nine years since korea rose up against a japanese rule thousands of korean women were forced into sexual slavery for

japanese soldiers during world war two those are the headlines inside story is next . as the united nations human rights council continues its conference in geneva there are often discrepancies between what officials tell the un and what happens on the clowns so how committed are governments in respecting human rights this is inside story.